Goal-directed aiming: Correcting a force-specification error with the right and left hands

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 309-324

  Elliott, Digby ^a   Heath, Matthew ^a   Binsted, Gordon ^a   Ricker, Kathryn L ^a   Roy, Eric A ^b   Chua, Romeo ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aiming; Asymmetry; Feedback; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FORCE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 0032740494     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: 19401027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222899909600997     Document Type: Article

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